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Ida Jean Orlando was a first generation Irish American born in 1926. She received her
nursing diploma from New York Medical College at the Lower Fifth Avenue Hospital School of
Nursing. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Public Health from St. John’s University in
Brooklyn, and her Master of Arts Degree in Mental Health Nursing from Teachers College,
Columbia University. She is married to Robert Pelletier and lives in the Boston area.
Ida Jean Orlando’s Deliberative Nursing Process is set in motion by the behavior of the
patient. According to the theory, all patient behavior can be a cry for help, both verbal and non-
verbal, and it is up to the nurse to interpret the behavior and determine the needs of the patient.
The Deliberative Nursing Process has five stages: assessment, diagnosis, planning,
implementation, and evaluation.
Also, according to her there are functions of professional nursing. These are the
organizing principle, presenting behavior-problematic situation, immediate reaction-internal
response, nursing process discipline- investigation, and improvement-resolution. The organizing
principle is the finding out and meeting of patients. Then the presenting behavior-problematic
situation is finding out the immediate need that will be recognized in every problematic situation.
Immediate Reaction-Internal Response is how the nurses participate in the nurse patient
situation. While Nursing Process Discipline-Investigation is any observation shared and explored
with the patient is immediately useful in ascertaining and meeting his need on finding out that he
is not in need at the time. Lastly is the improvement-resolution in which the nurses activity is
evaluated but rather its result : whether the activity serves to help the patient communicate her or
his need for help and how it is met.
In conclusion, Ida’s contribution to nursing most especially in clinical practice are the
nursing care plan, case studies and progressive patient care setting.